Love and attention to our new neighbors, the highest law.

Man is lord over the law because it is not man for the law, but the law rule man. Therefore, we live by a certparticularer or statute to serve ourselves or the community, not to please the lawgiver or to fulfill the law. Thus, in meaning, we subordinate the lower to the higher. When someone falls ill from a failing kidney, the lack of which would cause infection, and from that will come the sick person’s death; he is immediately ready to sacrifice that organ to save his life. When in life we are pressed by sickness, difficulties with ourselves, or with others, let us strive to sacrifice our sick disease problems and also inwardly accept this sacrifice as their submission to a higher value – namely, for God, for our salvation, and the sake of our neighbors. Even if it is difficult and we do not want to or would not sacrifice, the sacrifice will remain our only means of glorifying God and our salvation.

May the Lord grant us sufficient grace to never be indifferent to the people around us or their particular life needs. We shall be richly rewarded for all our hardships, which we offer to God. Amen.